Technology makes everything better!
Aug. 8th, 2007 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI was going to post about this before I left work today, but I was busy, and I forgot.
We received an interesting (if badly punctuated) email from our administration department this morning, advising us that Facilities had just installed "touchless", powered hand sanitizers next to the two main entrances to our office. Aside from rankling a bit over the fact that they referred to them as hand sanitizer's, my brain just skimmed over the message as company spam to be ignored. The message was filed and as quickly forgotten.
Thus I was surprised anew when I was sneaking out the back door for lunch today and I spied the new device attached to the wall. Oh, they meant today. It was shiny and new and not yet (inevitably) broken. They had not even been back yet to clean up the little pile of powdered plaster on the carpet that was left over from their drilling and mounting operation. Eager to try it while it was still working, I thrust my hand under where I assumed the hidden spigot would be. Nothing happened. I waggled my hand back and forth a couple of times to try and get its attention, but the machine was apparently as dead as it is fated to be in less than a week anyway. Good grief, the poor thing didn't even last an hour.
As I pulled my hand away to reach for the door, the machine emitted a "skraaawk" sound and ejaculated a little blob of hand sanitizer that arced gracefully away and spattered on the carpet. Oh, that has the potential to get messy. I held my hand under the machine again, but this time I refused to remove it until it had done its sanitizer bukkake thing into the palm of my hand. I guess I can understand why they had to put a timer on the dispenser, given that it's in a location that could potentially cause it to jizz on the leg of an innocent passer-by, but I wonder how many people will get faked out like I did the first time?
It will be interesting to see the state of the carpet in a couple of weeks.
We received an interesting (if badly punctuated) email from our administration department this morning, advising us that Facilities had just installed "touchless", powered hand sanitizers next to the two main entrances to our office. Aside from rankling a bit over the fact that they referred to them as hand sanitizer's, my brain just skimmed over the message as company spam to be ignored. The message was filed and as quickly forgotten.
Thus I was surprised anew when I was sneaking out the back door for lunch today and I spied the new device attached to the wall. Oh, they meant today. It was shiny and new and not yet (inevitably) broken. They had not even been back yet to clean up the little pile of powdered plaster on the carpet that was left over from their drilling and mounting operation. Eager to try it while it was still working, I thrust my hand under where I assumed the hidden spigot would be. Nothing happened. I waggled my hand back and forth a couple of times to try and get its attention, but the machine was apparently as dead as it is fated to be in less than a week anyway. Good grief, the poor thing didn't even last an hour.
As I pulled my hand away to reach for the door, the machine emitted a "skraaawk" sound and ejaculated a little blob of hand sanitizer that arced gracefully away and spattered on the carpet. Oh, that has the potential to get messy. I held my hand under the machine again, but this time I refused to remove it until it had done its sanitizer bukkake thing into the palm of my hand. I guess I can understand why they had to put a timer on the dispenser, given that it's in a location that could potentially cause it to jizz on the leg of an innocent passer-by, but I wonder how many people will get faked out like I did the first time?
It will be interesting to see the state of the carpet in a couple of weeks.
